Risk and Compliance Director at Vodacom, Dar es Salaam – November 2025

Role Profile & Key Responsibilities

Role Purpose:

To ensure that Vodacom Tanzania PLC and its subsidiary companies have an adequate risk management program and are compliant with all applicable laws, regulations, rules, company policies, codes, and standards. This includes implementing adequate systems and processes to monitor and enforce compliance and manage risks.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): Implement and maintain a robust risk management framework, ensuring effective methods, processes, and controls are in place to identify, assess, and mitigate enterprise risks.

• Business Continuity Management (BCM): Oversee the business continuity planning lifecycle, ensuring systems of prevention and recovery are established to support uninterrupted operations during and after disaster recovery events.

• Security, Investigations & Law Enforcement Assistance (LEA): Enforce security policies and procedures to safeguard company assets, data, employees, and visitors. Ensure timely and fair investigations and provide effective support to law enforcement agencies.

• Legal Compliance: Design and implement a legal compliance programme aligned with globally recognized standards. Ensure significant legal compliance risks are identified, addressed, and managed through consistent application of risk-based processes, controls, and systems.

• Training & Awareness: Deliver training and awareness programmes to effectively communicate Vodacom’s compliance standards and requirements to Employees, Directors, Contractors, Subsidiaries, Joint Ventures, and Suppliers.

• Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC): Ensure all systems, processes, and procedures comply with anti-bribery and corruption legislation and internal policies. Manage the declaration and monitoring of gifts and hospitality in line with ABC requirements.

• Economic Sanctions & Trade Export Controls: Ensure full compliance with applicable economic sanctions and trade export control laws and Vodafone Group standards across all transactions, systems, and procedures.

• Mobile Financial Services Compliance: Maintain appropriate controls to ensure compliance with relevant legislation, particularly Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws, and Vodafone Group standards for mobile financial services.

• Policy Compliance Review (PCR): Lead and coordinate the annual Policy Compliance Review process, ensuring timely execution and adherence to set deadlines.

• Due Diligence for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A): Conduct thorough due diligence for potential M&A transactions, identifying risks related to ABC, AML, anti-terrorist funding, and sanctions. Highlight red flags and successor liability issues, and provide actionable recommendations.

Qualification, Competencies, Knowledge & Experience

• Education: Masters degree in a relevant field. Undergraduate Degree in Law (LL.B) will be an added advantage.

• Experience: 10 years minimum experience in the risk and compliance management field including experience in a senior management position.

• Knowledge:

  • In-depth knowledge of Risks and Compliance.

  • Risk management processes and methodologies and their application.

  • Compliance management.

  • Extensive knowledge in Anti-corruption, anti-money laundering; and anti-terrorist financing legislation, codes of practice, etc.

  • Knowledge of the Telecom and Mobile Financial Service operating environment.

• Skills/Competencies:

  • Strong analytical abilities and a high level of attention to detail.

  • Proficient numeric skills.

  • Adequate experience and management of a large team of professionals.

  • High integrity and ethical standards.

  • Effective communication skills.

  • Independent judgement and ability to work independently.

  • Interpersonal skills.

How to Apply

• Job type: Full-time Job

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